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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does D tell them they are going?
(a) She does not tell them.
(b) No where.
(c) Back to her house after dinner.
(d) D decides they should just stay in after dinner.

2. What happens after Tupac recovers from being shot?
(a) He is sent to prison.
(b) He decides to sue the girl who accuses him.
(c) He moves to California.
(d) He writes a rap song about racism and the justice system

3. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?
(a) His stutter.
(b) His swagger or energy.
(c) His depressed shuffling.
(d) Any weight.

4. What quality does Neeka want to have?
(a) She does not say.
(b) Sex appeal.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Integrity.

5. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?
(a) He doesn't wear glasses.
(b) They are fogging up because he is crying.
(c) To go through the metal detector.
(d) So he cannot give them to Tash to make a knife out of.

6. What does D learn that the court system has done?
(a) Approved D's real mother to take her.
(b) Revoked Flo's rights to be a foster mother.
(c) Approved Flo's adoption request.
(d) Decided to send D to her real father in another State.

7. Where does Tash spend a few weeks?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Staten Island.
(c) Rikers Island.
(d) Attica.

8. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) If D can come over for dinner.
(b) If they would like to roam with her.
(c) If Tash was home yet.
(d) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.

9. When does Tash expect to be out?
(a) Within 2 years.
(b) The end of summer.
(c) He has no expectations.
(d) In a week.

10. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They should leave the United States.
(b) They are hunted.
(c) They should hunt just as they are hunted.
(d) They need to learn to get along in white society.

11. What does Neeka fear?
(a) Her mother finding out.
(b) Being beaten or raped.
(c) Being arrested.
(d) Nothing.

12. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The narrator's sister-in-law.
(c) Neeka's sister-in-law.
(d) Neeka.

13. Why does Randall not tell his side of the story?
(a) He hates Tash now.
(b) He is hospitalized.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is intimidated.

14. What effect does Tupac's imprisonment have on him?
(a) It numbs him.
(b) It enrages him.
(c) It sends him into deep depression.
(d) It makes him decide to change his life.

15. How does Randall resemble Tash?
(a) He is religious.
(b) He is calm and somber.
(c) He is devious.
(d) He is an effeminate gay man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?

2. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?

3. What do the three girls vow to do?

4. Why do some people take on D as a foster child?

5. What is the news about Tash?

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